Well, no, the drug lords won, won so well that they'll never be unseated from their unofficial positions of power due to entrenched organized crime syndicates under them. Potheads end up in jail, though, and we pay for it, so everyone else lost.

Are we really supposed to believe dread pirate roberts is anything other than someone making huge profits from enabling sales of illicit goods and services? All the libertarian stuff just seems to be justificatory hype to absolve him and his followers of any kind of moral obligation

'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts' he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.'

The Silk Road can be a scary farking place.Not because you can purchase drugs on there, drugs are everywhere anyway, but because of the other stuff on offer. I forget what exactly it was now but a month or so ago I saw chemicals for sale that assured death of an adult at a dosage one tenth of the amount on sale, so that's enough poison to kill ten men for whatever the exchange rate was at the time, $20 if I recall correctly.Not saying suicide is bad, and that's what the item on sale was for, but enough for ten men at a time?

The point of the war on drugs is not to stop drugs.The point of the war on drugs is to catch idiots that break rules that don't suit them.Sure, drug use is a victim-less crime. Yes, the real problem is the prohibition, not the substance.But that's not the point. DUH! The drug laws exist for a reason and no, it isn't to enrich the owners of private prisons.DRUGS ARE A GIANT BUG-LIGHT FOR RECKLESS IDIOTSThere is no high good enough to risk a week in jail and yet these idiots continue to risk years!Why?Because they are the kind of person who disobeys rules when they feel like it.In other words, they are dangerous to the hive collective.If you do not follow a rule when breaking the rule has harsh consequences then you are a stupid reckless person and your recklessness is dangerous to the rest of us.The purpose of drug laws is to catch idiot rule breakers.... and mark them with a criminal record..... and protect others from them.Not because they are drug users, but rather BECAUSE THEY ARE IDIOT RULE BREAKERS.

TheWhoppah:The point of the war on drugs is not to stop drugs.The point of the war on drugs is to catch idiots that break rules that don't suit them.Sure, drug use is a victim-less crime. Yes, the real problem is the prohibition, not the substance.But that's not the point. DUH! The drug laws exist for a reason and no, it isn't to enrich the owners of private prisons.DRUGS ARE A GIANT BUG-LIGHT FOR RECKLESS IDIOTSThere is no high good enough to risk a week in jail and yet these idiots continue to risk years!Why?Because they are the kind of person who disobeys rules when they feel like it.In other words, they are dangerous to the hive collective.If you do not follow a rule when breaking the rule has harsh consequences then you are a stupid reckless person and your recklessness is dangerous to the rest of us.The purpose of drug laws is to catch idiot rule breakers.... and mark them with a criminal record..... and protect others from them.Not because they are drug users, but rather BECAUSE THEY ARE IDIOT RULE BREAKERS.

Disagree? You sound like a druggie.

That's okay, you sound high on your own self-righteousness. And ignorant. I'd rather sound like a druggie anyday.

The war on drugs started because of the violence of a$$holes in floridait's things like this that can remove the OTHER greedy human elementsleaving you with bean counters, businesspeople and the growers/chemiststhat would be farking magnificent

TheWhoppah:The point of the war on drugs is not to stop drugs.The point of the war on drugs is to catch idiots that break rules that don't suit them.Sure, drug use is a victim-less crime. Yes, the real problem is the prohibition, not the substance.But that's not the point. DUH! The drug laws exist for a reason and no, it isn't to enrich the owners of private prisons.DRUGS ARE A GIANT BUG-LIGHT FOR RECKLESS IDIOTSThere is no high good enough to risk a week in jail and yet these idiots continue to risk years!Why?Because they are the kind of person who disobeys rules when they feel like it.In other words, they are dangerous to the hive collective.If you do not follow a rule when breaking the rule has harsh consequences then you are a stupid reckless person and your recklessness is dangerous to the rest of us.The purpose of drug laws is to catch idiot rule breakers.... and mark them with a criminal record..... and protect others from them.Not because they are drug users, but rather BECAUSE THEY ARE IDIOT RULE BREAKERS.

TheWhoppah:The point of the war on drugs is not to stop drugs.The point of the war on drugs is to catch idiots that break rules that don't suit them.Sure, drug use is a victim-less crime. Yes, the real problem is the prohibition, not the substance.But that's not the point. DUH! The drug laws exist for a reason and no, it isn't to enrich the owners of private prisons.DRUGS ARE A GIANT BUG-LIGHT FOR RECKLESS IDIOTSThere is no high good enough to risk a week in jail and yet these idiots continue to risk years!Why?Because they are the kind of person who disobeys rules when they feel like it.In other words, they are dangerous to the hive collective.If you do not follow a rule when breaking the rule has harsh consequences then you are a stupid reckless person and your recklessness is dangerous to the rest of us.The purpose of drug laws is to catch idiot rule breakers.... and mark them with a criminal record..... and protect others from them.Not because they are drug users, but rather BECAUSE THEY ARE IDIOT RULE BREAKERS.

Disagree? You sound like a druggie.

Actually, the times I got caught doing illegal drugs, it was a fine. No jail time.

Weirdly enough, I've also always been employed and didn't steal or OD on heroin or kill anyone.

TheWhoppah:The point of the war on drugs is not to stop drugs.The point of the war on drugs is to catch idiots that break rules that don't suit them.Sure, drug use is a victim-less crime. Yes, the real problem is the prohibition, not the substance.But that's not the point. DUH! The drug laws exist for a reason and no, it isn't to enrich the owners of private prisons.DRUGS ARE A GIANT BUG-LIGHT FOR RECKLESS IDIOTSThere is no high good enough to risk a week in jail and yet these idiots continue to risk years!Why?Because they are the kind of person who disobeys rules when they feel like it.In other words, they are dangerous to the hive collective.If you do not follow a rule when breaking the rule has harsh consequences then you are a stupid reckless person and your recklessness is dangerous to the rest of us.The purpose of drug laws is to catch idiot rule breakers.... and mark them with a criminal record..... and protect others from them.Not because they are drug users, but rather BECAUSE THEY ARE IDIOT RULE BREAKERS.

Disagree? You sound like a druggie.

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The same could be said for every idiot that breaks the rules. That's why we HAVE rules (laws). But the drug laws are ridiculous, punish the wrong people, and put far more people in harm's way than they would be otherwise. The reason people rebel against those rules is because the rules are stupid.

Its a means justifies the ends type of thing. We catch people who are willing to break laws they don't feel like following and give them a criminal record. This way, employers and landlords and anyone else that cares to do a background check can see what type of person you are and make their own decision on whether or not to trust you. I didn't say that I agree with this scheme. I only report the news, I don't make it.

maybe I'm getting old but when I go to a black market I like to go there physically. The back alleys of Marrakesh, safe house in Prague or an abandoned factory in Detroit. The smells, the sights and the possibility of an ambush just adds to the whole jour ne se qua. Logging on and buying something with bitcoins is like being a clerk

natas6.0:The war on drugs started because of the violence of a$$holes in floridait's things like this that can remove the OTHER greedy human elementsleaving you with bean counters, businesspeople and the growers/chemiststhat would be farking magnificent

I don't remember it that way, and I'm exactly that old. It was really the spectre of widely available cheap cocaine in the inner cities that got the ball rolling.

@FloydA - The drug laws were written by the same type of people that supported the laws that Ms. Parks violated so yeah, my point stands... but don't fool yourself into thinking that getting high is some noble form of civil disobedience. Its not.

natas6.0:The war on drugs started because of the violence of a$$holes in floridait's things like this that can remove the OTHER greedy human elementsleaving you with bean counters, businesspeople and the growers/chemiststhat would be farking magnificent

I keep reading how it's a safe way to buy drugs that takes organized crime out of the equation. That seems incredibly naive to me. Do you really believe that?

One of the biggest problems with the War on Drugs and War on Terror is that they've declared "war" on a general idea. An intangible concept. At least with Korea and Vietnam, there were fairly defined enemies which we were fighting. Drugs are a broad concept, unclearly defined.

IMHO, the only drugs we should certainly legalize and regulate are ones produced naturally, such as marijuana and opium. Drugs that are subject to intense manufacturing, such as cocaine, should stay illegal.

YoOjo:The Silk Road can be a scary farking place.Not because you can purchase drugs on there, drugs are everywhere anyway, but because of the other stuff on offer. I forget what exactly it was now but a month or so ago I saw chemicals for sale that assured death of an adult at a dosage one tenth of the amount on sale, so that's enough poison to kill ten men for whatever the exchange rate was at the time, $20 if I recall correctly.Not saying suicide is bad, and that's what the item on sale was for, but enough for ten men at a time?